The project "Venus" by Jacques Fresco. "Paradise or oblivion." Criticism of the project "Venus" and reviews about it

Jacques Fresco, a 99-year-old American industrial designer, production engineer and futurist, is the founder and director of the Venus project. The main topics of his lectures are cities of sustainable development, an economy based on the rational use of natural (natural) resources, universal automation and others. Let's consider what the essence of the project is "Venus".

Prerequisites for the emergence

The project "Venus" is a change in the culture of people living today. The idea is to build the future by new people who are convinced of the futility of the financial system and the artificially generated resource deficit. As the main directions of social arrangement according to the scheme suggested by the author, the economy of common facilities and automated high technologies will become. These elements can ensure the absolute satisfaction of needs. The project "Venus" by Jacques Fresco aims to shift the attention of the world's population from the aggressive possession of resources towards useful and cognitive activity. This will allow in the future to maintain the quality of life of each individual at a high level.

Lecture in Stockholm

The project "Venus" is a research center, which is located in the p. Florida, in the city of Venus. His popularity he gained thanks to the film released in 2008 - "The Spirit of Time: Application." Jacques Fresco, the author of the project, together with Roxana Meadows (his assistant) create a model of the future, according to which nature, technology and man will exist in a dynamic balance. The scheme excludes any neglect to any of the elements of the system. Scientists are developing the project "Venus" in Russia and abroad, conducting lectures and seminars, releasing methodological materials. The efforts of the leaders are aimed at finding the true causes of the existing global problems in society. The conclusions that scientists make are predicting serious upheavals at every level of civilization's existence.

Defense industry

Jacques Fresco in his lectures draws attention to the fact that the world has a technological potential, the scale of which is huge. In modern conditions, technical means are developed, which are expressed in patents that make it easier to work and get the expected results. The potential, which says Fresco, is growing every year. A huge amount of resources is spent on the formation of military power, maintaining the army in combat readiness, improving defense production in order to ensure security and preserve the sovereignty of states. The budgets of many countries provide for an infusion of billions for these needs. This is mainly due to the fact that all internal and external conflicts are usually resolved by force. Directly or indirectly, the redistribution of the means of the defense sector has an impact on the well-being of the civilian population. The project "Venus" by Jacques Fresco primarily involves reducing the financing of the military industry. This will ensure the safety of budget funds. The freed streams should be directed to the development of scientific branches, useful for society. Sooner or later, this will have a positive effect on the quality of life of citizens.

Monetary system

The financial institute arose long ago. In modern conditions, the monetary system generates a permanent economic inequality, dividing the population into rich and poor. Seeking to acquire natural resources, people use different market instruments. If they do not contribute to the achievement of the result, power aggression and bribery are used. Artificially formed deficit, developing a monopoly, slowing the development of new products. A comparatively small group of people, thus, manipulates production volumes and, accordingly, pricing. For example, to prevent abundance in the agricultural sector, some states pay extra for a small yield. This avoids the bankruptcy of enterprises and default. In other countries, on the contrary, a rigid framework is formed, with the help of which the production level is forcibly reduced. All this contributes to the development of corruption, social inequality, theft and other vices of society.

Crises

In his speeches Fresco gives a formula that exists due to the functioning of the banking and monetary systems: Z = X + Y, where X is the existing money; Y - income from interest, which must be paid by the debtor.

The latter are indirect slavery. Money Y must be printed, because in reality they are not, because they are not provided with actual material values. Loans contribute to inflation. Banks that have money do not give them free of charge. They use them to meet their own needs, create a carefree life for themselves. Along with this, in the process of creating a deficit and other economic restrictions, there is a devaluation of labor, and prices are rising. Fresco says that, in fact, the credit and banking structure is formed in the form of a financial pyramid. The result of its existence will be an absolute collapse of the entire system. Evidence of the destructive effect of the financial structure is a rather complicated situation in the European Union, an increase in the national debts of countries, the filling of markets with cheap Chinese goods, and crisis waves. All this became the base on which the project "Venus" began to be built.

Behavior of people

The main influence on it is provided by their surroundings and upbringing. Man, thus, form the conditions, says Fresco. The project "Venus" is based on the constant change and movement of the world due to the action of natural law. Taking into account the creation of new technologies and the evolving crisis in the arrangement of society, a new one must be formed in place of the old system.

Depression and self-esteem: Jacques Fresco, project "Venus"

Man is not born merciless and cruel. Aggressive it makes the environment. Fresco believes that the opinion that the formation of the character of people occurs under the influence of genes is erroneous. People can not be born with hatred and anger towards each other. All these qualities and reactions are formed and developed in the process of obtaining life experience. Undoubtedly, human nature requires defining the boundaries of its territory, imposing competition for property and extraction. But in the abundance of material values, which suggests the project "Venus" Jacques Fresco, the fight will not make any sense. A person is formed under the influence of:

• Parents.
• Mentality.
• Friends.
• Religions.
• Financial condition.
• Education.
• Level of informative nature of the environment and other things.

Everything that happens depends on people. Everyone should choose a constructive or destructive way of development. Man will make a step and draw the future. It will be followed by a change in one's own consciousness and a transition to a qualitatively new level.

Values

They are of particular importance for the man of our time. Values depend on the environment in which the individual grew up. In connection with the fact that the conditions surrounding people act as a product of selfishness and the monetary system, a person becomes naturally predictable. Those who grew up under the influence of capitalist ideals, will care about the formation of business and profit more than about meeting the needs of others. In the modern world, any enterprise that directs its cash flows to increase primarily the welfare of its employees, and not to purchase new equipment and advertising, has fewer opportunities to compete in the market.

Law

Existing norms, of which a huge number, can not solve the basic problems of society. Tops of the administrative apparatus and bureaucracy legitimize corruption, theft of the elite. In this case, minor crimes of citizens belonging to the low and middle class are punished in all severity. While natural resources are used to improve the well-being of the elect, while there are needy and disadvantaged, no one, even people who honor morality, can not stop fraud, lies and other vices in power. No matter how many laws were invented, there will always be violators. This will gradually lead to weakening, and subsequently to the loss of the human rights function of the norms. At the same time, restrictions and penalties will be tightened. The moral side of a person does not change either at liberty or during imprisonment. Thus, governments do not eliminate the cause, but temporarily eliminate the consequences of the disease of society. The project "Venus" by Jacques Fresco is aimed at delivering people from the constant need to earn money to provide themselves with basic necessities. They must be freed from oppression and struggle for survival.

"Paradise or oblivion" (Jacques Fresco: project "Venus")

The purpose of the model is to form a global civilization in which a resource-oriented economic system will function, a network of "smart" cities will be developed, and universal automation will be used. In the modern world, robots and machines successfully replace a person in the production process. This, in turn, helps to reduce jobs, reduce pay. As a result, unemployment is increasing, purchasing power is declining . The project "Venus" by Jacques Fresco is aimed at automation, which acts simultaneously as a way to collapse, and as a movement towards a new world order. Developed cybernation and artificial intelligence will significantly reduce the consumption of mankind for monotonous activity.

Principles

The project implementation is based on a scientific approach. The model of the future involves the use of methods and principles that have been tested by time. A sensible person, according to Fresco, choosing between astrology, magic and science, give preference to the latter. A universal language of disciplines, understandable formulas and interpretations can be understood by an educated person. The implementation of the project should begin with a full review:

1. Physical resources.
2. Production capacity.
3. The staff.
4. The accumulation sites.
5. The needs of people.

Having created an information base on the location of sources of resources, the construction of those or other objects, human needs, work processes, built-in sensors will provide transfer to the server system the latest data. On their basis, artificial intelligence will subsequently conduct analysis and solve urgent problems. The resource-oriented economic model will achieve high performance. Today, there are already developments that will provide the world population with endless energy reserves. As driving forces it is supposed to use:

1. Thermonuclear fusion.
2. Fresnel lenses.
3. Thermoelectronics.
4. Phase transition.
5. Bacteria.
6. Biomass.
7. Seaweed.
8. Natural gas.
9. Hydrogen.
10. Electrostatics.
11. Geothermal energy.
12. Waterfalls.
13. Temperature fluctuations.
14. Oceanic currents.
15. Ebb and flow.
16. Wind.

Available technologies

Today, methods have already been developed that can be used to build power plants to produce an endless flow of energy. For example, geothermal plants can produce five hundred times more power than all the world's minerals. In a number of countries, the energy that is extracted from the depths of the earth provides heat to greenhouse plants. The energy can be obtained by building electric turbines in areas of fast water flow. For example, in the Gulf Stream area. You can connect the banks of the Bering Strait and use this bridge as a transport channel for moving material, harvesting sea food, international travel. The model of the future makes any production process practically free. As for the other nuances of the termination of these or those technological operations, it will become a matter of enthusiasts.

Public opinion

The project "Venus" in Russia and in other countries is very ambiguous. Many talk about the utopian ideas of the author. Evaluating the model, the opinion is expressed that the most important thing in the scheme is a clear plan for getting out of the crisis. Reviews about the project "Venus" are mostly negative. According to many representatives of the public, the author does not offer evolutionary development. His model is focused on the destruction of the existing system, a structure that has been formed for millennia.

The criticism of the Venus project by the Marxists is quite tough. They consider the proposed concept "utopian socialism of the twenty-first century". In fact, Fresco offers an alternative to private property - production assets. As the model assumes, after enlightenment and getting explanations people should simply choose the proposed idea and follow it. In this subjective approach, the Marxists see the utopianism of the project. The author himself does not really offer anything concrete. He just believes that all crises will be eliminated only because the system will independently destroy the prerequisites for their emergence. To speed up this process, he proposes the destruction of the monetary system.